Athlete of the Week Updates

It's been a while since I made any posts on the main page of this site.

The season has been rolling along.  Check out a full list of our athletes of the week on our Athlete of the Week Page

This week's winners are Dario Salinas and Blanca Madrigal for their performances at the Jackie Henderson Memorial Invitational

Blanca won the JV race at Jackie Henderson

Dario was second in the Frosh Soph race at Jackie Henderson
and ran our fastest time of the day for any boy. 

Help Wanted!

2 big events coming up for HHS XC fundraising efforts.

1. September 28 - Snack bar at homecoming game.  Boosters ask that we have 12 volunteers per shift.  Coaching staff will be jumping in to help, but parents make up the backbone of snackbar workers at all of the football games for the boosters club.  Boosters then returns the favor by providing money for: Meet entries, uniforms, etc...

• The early shift starts at 5:00 PM
• The late shift starts at 7:30 PM 
• If you want to work both shifts, I won't say no :)  
• I'm posting this list as a Sign Up Sheet

1. October 13th - Hughson Supercross Invitational

• Volunteers will be needed from 7:00 AM - 12:00 Noon.  
• This is our program's signature event.  We have 36 teams slated to compete this year, by far our biggest ever.
• Coach Eddie is in charge of volunteers this year. 
• Here is the List of Jobs that we need covered. Please sign up for a job you'd like

Athletes of the Week for Week 3 - Hannah Knight and Michael Morrett

We did not award an AOW for week 2 because we had no meets or time trials.  For week 3, we decided to make up for it by naming 2.  Congrats to Michael Morrett and Hannah Knight for their improvements in our second time trial.  Both athletes are showing tremendous promise.

Read the full summary on our Athlete of the Week page

Hannah improved her time trial by 68 seconds

Michael improved his time trial by 90 seconds

Tentative travel plans for Woodbridge Invitational

Hey, team.  I've compiled a preliminary travel roster and itinerary for our trip to Southern California from September 13th - 15th. 

It should be an exciting trip with the chance for our teams to match up against some very good competition from the Western United States. 

Here is a link to the itinerary for the trip.  You will need to open it with your hughsonschools account.  I didn't want to make our specific travel details public on the web. 

Feel free to look at the meet website for more information.

Meet Coverage should be available on milesplit.com.  I don't know if they will be live streaming the meet this year, but they have done so in the past.

FAN CLOTH Fundraiser

My goal as an instructor is to build a program that will provide your student an opportunity to grow and develop not only as a student, but also as a member of the greater community. To do this to the best of my ability, our team requires additional funding so that we can provide a top-notch experience for your student.

This Fall (or other season), we will be partnering with Fan Cloth, the #1 fundraiser in the US for high school teams. Over the years, Fan Cloth has helped over 40,000 teams like ours get the funding they need by providing custom apparel for both teams and their fans to show their sense of team spirit.

Soon, your student will be bringing home the materials for this year’s Fan Cloth campaign. I strongly encourage you to read over all the materials and familiarize yourself with this awesome program. With these materials, there will be a special insert that will help you work with your student to reach our goals.

Here are a few tips that will help both you and your student throughout our fundraiser:

• ·         To make sharing as effortless as possible, Fan Cloth has a sharing tool you can use by texting your FC Catalog Number to 559-900-3222 to reach as many people as possible.
• ·         Reach out to friends, family, neighbors and co-workers to give everyone a chance to order.
• ·         Don’t forget to spread the word through social media.
• ·         Check in with your student during the campaign to make sure they always have their catalog and order form with them so that they can be actively selling to reach their incentive goals.

With your support, I’m certain we can reach our goals! Keep in mind, this will be the only chance to order custom gear with Fan Cloth this semester.

Here is a digital copy of our catalogue.  You should be receiving your paper copy by Monday. 

Sincerely,

Coach Bernard

Long Progression Run

Nationally ranked Edina HS from Minnesota doing a Long Progression Run. This is what I want groups 1,2,3 doing on Saturday this week.

Igloi Training Terminology

Way back in the stone ages, athletes from Hungary trained by a guy named Mihaly Igloi set 27 world records at distances from 1500m - 10000m.  His training would be considered unorthodox today, but back in the day, he got some great results.

One of Igloi's athletes, Laszlo Tabori immigrated to the United States where he coached a number of outstanding athletes.  One of his athletes, Bob Schul won the gold medal in the 5000m in the 1964 Olympics.  Another, Johnny Gray held the American Record at 800m for over 2 decades.

Johnny Gray went on to coach Khadevis Robinson, who explains the Igloi system a little bit in this video.

Khadevis Robinson On Igloi Paces

To Summarize

• Jog - We know what jog is, very slow, designed for recovery
• Easy - Easy effort, light bouncy steps
• Fresh - Faster than Easy, perhaps 5k-10k race pace.  Imagine there is a bar through your ankle you need to step over
• Swing - Same action of stepping over a bar, but now focus on driving off the back leg and driving the lead knee up.  Probably about mile race pace.
• Speed - This is the speed you would use in a finishing kick.  The focus should be on quickening the tempo while still maintaining the powerful stride mechanics.

Here is Bob Schul Winning Gold in 1964 He is #719.  Notice how he is in Fresh mode at first, then switches to Swing with about 600 to go then switches again to Speed with about 200 to go.